It's cheaper for a reason. Part of that reason is the "Apple tax" and part of that reason is because it does much more and is an all-around more versatile/useful and user friendly device. And it's cooler.

I lease because I like a new car every 2-3 years, despise the idea of having to deal with selling off my old car and hate dealing with and wasting time on car repairs/problems/maintenance. I'm willing to pay more to keep all the downsides of ownership off of me. Could I be saving $$ by purchasing and keeping the car longer? Absolutely.

I have cable TV and internet, and two cell phones. A land line would be nice sometimes for better call quality on a conference call or when you want to hold up a traditional phone to your head... If I wasn't lazy I would bring my office phone home and use it - it's a Cisco VoIP phone where I'd plug it into my home network and it would connect back to work and it would have my extension on it, and I could use it for outgoing/incoming calls.

Your explanations about image size and quality are bull****. Even those who have minimal Photoshop skills (like Jesse and myself) know that when you enlarge from a smaller image, quality is NOT maintained. You have been debunked by professionals and casual users. Your example picture looks like ****, just as everyone has said all along.

All of your long winded replies have been nothing but the typical CHEWIE cop-out. Man up and admit you are wrong about the image quality discussion, and that you opened your mouth about our pictures which were not copied but actually larger and higher res. Jesse had the source on the phone to request poses for Christ sake! Keep in mind all of this while remembering that nowhere did Jesse claim to post the first pictures.

Don't worry though everyone, CHEWIE obviously knows more about this situation than those actually involved, and he also knows more about SW collecting site etiquette and news in general than those who have posted thoughts here derived from their many years of experience.